Coaching

For more than 20 years Kirsten has worked with passionate leaders in privately held companies, family businesses and non-profits. Her insightful approach has helped them find their fuel, ignite their teams, speak with tenacity and become empowered in their lives and work.

We will create a customized plan for you that includes services from the menu of options below. Contact Kirsten Now!

Gain Self-Awareness. Learn who you are as a leader. Customized and highly-targeted action creates the necessary change to transform you into a powerful leader. Individual Coaching can be held in person at my office in Warren, MI, at your location for multiple back to back sessions, or via phone.

Methodology

Our coaching methodology centers around three key steps:

Awareness: Identify the barriers to reaching full potential and the key “why’s”

Motivation: Create or enhance the desire to change

Change: Enact authentic, sustainable change through targeted action steps that get the leader practicing new behaviors, thought patterns and ways of being.

Awareness

I use a blend of the identified goals of the organization, the goals of the Person Being Coached (PBC ), and my own observations to begin the process. The issues uncovered while reviewing performance evaluations, speaking with supervisors, etc. generally do not provide the “why”. I help my clients get at the underlying “why” of how they are behaving, relating, communicating, controlling, etc. It’s not enough to tell someone to act differently. True sustainable change happens when they can begin to think differently or take on a new perspective.

I use real-life experience and powerful questions to get at who my clients are in relationship with others and the real “whys”. From there we swiftly identify the barriers to reaching full potential and create the roadmap for authentic change.

Motivation

After identifying the “why, the next step is to create the motivation to change. Often clients are not aware of the full impact their behaviors, thought patterns, beliefs, communication, etc. are having on their success. I help them see the full impact by creating action steps that encourage them to pay attention and gain that necessary awareness. It is an important step because seeing the full impact creates the motivation to change. We’ve all heard the old saying, “the pain of staying the same has to be worse than the pain of change.”

Humans are pain avoidant and like consistency. I often have to help my clients create that reason to change. If much of the negative impact is not on their radar screen, which is often the case, they are not motivated to push through the uncomfortable process of change. If, however, they begin to see the full impact the negative behaviors are having on their lives and work, they become motivated.

This is a necessary step particularly when an executive has not self-selected into the coaching program. If they see no real need to change for themselves they will continue to put up road blocks to enacting authentic, sustainable change.

Change

Once the “why’s” are identified and the motivation is there it is time to enact real sustainable change. We create targeted action steps designed to move the PBC to new behaviors, thought patterns and communication strategies that transform how he/she leads and relates to others. The change is often readily apparent and initially feels uncomfortable. But every success is celebrated and new way of being is reinforced.

Along the way I encourage the PBC to communicate with colleagues so that they can begin to relate to him or her as the person he/she is trying to become. I also recommend that they ask a few key trusted advisors to help hold them accountable by providing constructive feedback in real-time based on their observations.

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We specialize in helping leaders maneuver the unique dynamics present in family businesses. Whether it’s traversing the difficulty of challenging family dynamics or creating a smooth transition to the next generation we’ve got the expertise to help.

Experience a sense of calm and clarity during difficult conversations. These conversations are ideal for instances where there is a breakdown in communication. Participants gain self-awareness about who they are in communication and create change where required. Targeted outcomes for these conversations are:

1. Better understanding of the issues
2. Commitments to each other for the future
3. Increased skill in true listening and speaking
4. Improved respect & understanding

The process begins with a Cultural Assessment that includes a representative survey of employees. Aggregate data will then be used to create a Report of Findings that includes a list of identified issues with specific actions prescribed to correct each one. We will create a comprehensive, customized plan based on your unique situation.

For groups of up to 8 individuals who have similar barriers or who are working towards related outcomes. Group coaching can help improve individuals but will also benefit a team. Each participant learns from the others as they experience success. Individual members hold each other accountable for weekly action steps. Group Coaching sessions can be held at my office in Royal Oak, MI or your location.

Similar to group coaching, team building focuses more specifically on working effectively together and will dramatically improve the culture of your organization. Members learn to respect each other, improve communication, create better processes, decrease workplace drama and commit to working from positive assumptions about each other.

Kirsten E. Ross is CEO of Focus Forward Coaching, LLC, a leading coaching and culture correction firm, and has been in the field for more than 20 years. She is the author of the leadership books “Defeat the Drama!” and “From People Problems to Productivity” and has been featured as an expert for media such as: NBC Nightly News, Fox 2 News, National Public Radio and for publications such as Entrepreneur, Working Mother and Crains New York.

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